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Leefe · Sep 13, 2022 9:28 AM

I have not seen this topic come up
and i just had a 3g crop of foal go down in bone den
my pasture is 2g wb stock no Rh in the field but i received 2 Riding horse foals
what caused this to happen
is it random?
is it something i need to look out for in breeding?
any ideas to shed some light as to why it happened would be so very helpful
links to foals found below
thank you

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Fiddler · Sep 13, 2022 9:52 AM

add calcium to their diet. Sorry, couldn't resist. I have no idea.

Xzeina · Sep 13, 2022 9:54 AM

Every horse has a range that it can produce. I think what happened was that the horses have been producing at the low end of their range, and that's why you ended up with these foals.

kgstable · Sep 13, 2022 12:35 PM

What Xzenia said, there's a range they can throw and if it's on the smaller end they could end up RH/RP, i got a warmblood in my pasture this season out of the blue! Doesn't normally happen but the mare just threw a foal right at the top of the range

bluchrystals · Sep 13, 2022 4:12 PM

It happens a lot more frequently if you've bred consistently to an outside line of warmblood/riding bone size. I've bred to warmbloods with my riding horses as they had genes I wanted. If I didn't GMT the bone size back down I would get a lot of warmbloods out of my pastures. The way it is I get two to three a season.